by sargent.centre@imperial.ac.uk | Jul 23, 2025
Bioprocesses play a critical role in producing enzymes, hormones, antibodies, and other high-value proteins for sectors ranging from pharmaceuticals to food and consumer goods. One major challenge in this field is predicting whether these engineered proteins will be...
by sargent.centre@imperial.ac.uk | Jul 23, 2025
Experimental research in chemical engineering and biotechnology often involves vast design spaces, expensive experiments, and competing objectives. Whether it is tuning process conditions for a reactor or screening hundreds of enzyme variants for improved activity,...
by sargent.centre@imperial.ac.uk | May 9, 2025
We are pioneering the use of integrated, computer-based systems comprised of simulation, analytics and advanced process optimisation tools to develop autonomous reaction systems. These systems are employed to identify kinetic models online for model-based reaction...
by sargent.centre@imperial.ac.uk | Mar 13, 2025
Fusion offers the possibility of clean and abundant energy, but faces many engineering challenges. For the conversion of thermal energy into electricity, two challenges are addressed here: operation of prototype fusion tokamaks may be pulsed due to operational...
by sargent.centre@imperial.ac.uk | Dec 18, 2024
Computing – Imperial College London Ruth Misener is Professor in the Computational Optimisation Group, Research Chair in Data-Driven Optimisation with BASF and the Royal Academy of Engineering, and an Amazon Scholar. She holds a PhD in Chemical Engineering from...
